Tailblock equipment



Feb. 16 1926.

R. H BEAUMONT TAIL BLOCK EQUIPMENT Filed Nov. 6, 1925 2 Sheets-Shee't 1 Patented Feb. 1 6, 1926.

UNITED STATES 1,573,778 PA E OFFICE.

ROBERT H. BEAUMONT, or BADNOR, PENNSYLVANIA, AssreNoR To B. n. B AU Q 00., or PHILADELPHI PENNSYLVANIA, A conPoR rIoN or PENNSY I TAILBLOCK QUIP NT.

Application filed Nov emb er 6,1925. Serial No. 67,2 6.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, ROBERT H. BEAUMONT, a citizen of the United States, residing at R-adnor, in the county of Montgomery and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Tailblock Equipment, of which the following is a specification.

The principal object of the presentinven-,

tion is to provide drag scraperwtail' block equipment for walled storage yards such that the drag scraper can beused for storing in a high pile and close to or up against a wall and for satisfactorily taking out stored material. I

Other objects of the inventionfwill appear from the followingdescription at the end of which the inventionwill beclaimed.

In the following description reference will be made to theaccompanying drawings illustrating embodiments ofthe invention and Figure l-is a top section of tail block equipmentembodying features of the invention. Y

Fig. 2 is a transverse sectional view taken on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view illustrating v in elevationfeatures of the invention.

Fig. 4 is a view of the righthand end of the structure shown in Fig. 3. r

Fig. 5 is an elevational view of the left hand end of the structure shown in Fig. 3, and I Fig. 6 is a view illustrating a modification.

Referring more particularly to F igs l and 2, 1 is a rail structure having a generally horizontal web portion 2 arranged above the groundlevel and having a generally vertical flange portion 3 at the free edge of'the web a portion 2. There is a carriage having as shown two generally horizontal wheels 4 adapted to run on the flange portion 3 to resist'the pull of the drag scraper cable 5 and having as shown eight generally Vertical wheels 6 adapted to run on a web portion'2i 7 is a sheave swiveled at 8 and 9 and balanced andcarried by the carriage- As shown the sheave is balanced by a.counter-' weight 10 of which the cord 11 runs over the pulley on an arm 12 rising fromv the carriage and is attached to an arm 13 connected with the shank of the sheave. The counterweight gear is shown in duplicate. 14 is a plow or scraper having. hinged connection as at 15 with the carriage andvits purpose will be or plan view-partly in post 17 is one'means for connecting the top and bC'lltOlll sections of the carriage and it' horizontally supports the bracket 18 which provides an eleinent of the swivel 9; Referring to Figs. 3 and 4, there-are two rail structures 19 and 20 arranged above the ground at different levels'and carriedjbvan element. I

21 which may be regarded as the sidewall of a building or any variety of side wall 'enclos-.

ing the storage yard. When the carriage is on the high level rail structure 19, as shown in-Fig. 3, the equipment is arranged for'piling material in a high pile for storage within the enclosure and close-upto the sidewall,-

' and when the: carriage ison the low level rail structure 20, the equipment is .adapted'to take the material out of storage. .Itmaybe.

said that when the sheave and carriage are on the top-rail. structure the scraper can not reach down far enough to clean outstorage. The scraper referred to is not shown because it is too well understood to require-illustrat ing or description although it may be said that it is operated by the cable 5, at least in part. The horizontal position of the sheave 7 on either of the rail structures is adjusted and controlled by the cable 22 running on the a guide rolls beneath the trackstructures, connected with the carriage, and operated, for

example, by a drum 23 tomove the carriage in either direction on either rail structure 7 and to hold it in any desired position. I 24 is a lift carrying a section 25 of the rail structure'onto which the carriage may run. By means of suitable hoisting machinery 26 the lift with the carriage on the nail section 25 rial from the upper surface of the web portion 2, it being understood that the material, which may well be coal, is piled over and on the lower rail structure. Referring to Fig.

6, the construction and operationare the same as have been described except that the rail structures comprise two elements 28'and 29 instead of the single element, and it is the top face or web 30 of the element29 and the bottom face or flange 31 of the element 28 upon which the upper and lower sets oi vertical rollers 6 run. In this connection it may be said that the upper and lower sets of ro'llers 6 provide forproper support of the carriage upon the rail structure and prevent accidental detachment of the carriage which might occur if the center of gravity of the structure should fall outside of the rail structure.

Reference has been made to drag scraper equipment-merely for the sake of explanation, and the device claimed might well be termed cable bight sheave equipment and applied to any use of which it is capable.

lt will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modi fications mayv be made in details or construction and arrangement and matters of me re form without departing from the spiritbithe invention which is not limited as tosuch matters or otherwise than the prior art and the appended claims may require. v

I claim: I

l Tail block equipment comprising a rail structure arranged above the ground and having a generally horizontal portion and a generally vertical portion, a carriage havginggenerally horizontal wheels arranged to runon the generally vertical portion to resist cable pull and having generally vertical wheels adapted to run on the generally horizontal portion, and a balanced swivel sheave ranged at different levels above the ground level and in proximity with a storage wall, a wheeled carriage adapted to run on said rail structures and to resist cable pull, a balanced swivel sheave carried by the carriage and projecting laterally therefrom, a carriage operating cable having one of its reaches arranged along each rail structure and machinery for operating the cable.

at. Tail block equipment for walled storage yards comprising rail structures ar ranged at dillerent levels above the ground level and in proximity with a storage wall, a wheeled carriage adapted to run on said rail structures and to resist cable pull, a balanced swivel sheave carried by the carriage and projecting laterally therefrom, and a lift provided with a rail structure segment for transferring the carriage from one to the other of the rail structures.

ROBERT H. BEAUMONT. 7 

